Top positive review

Bought this for my son for Xmas. Within 10 minutes he'd found 10p in the garden, all excited he went out again and came back a few minutes later with a leather pouch full of silver coins! - It turned out to be a bag of my parking money he must have buried in the garden several years before! But he was hooked from then on! So I bought a detector too and we've been off to the beach together - great fun and I found my first musket shot. Yes, it's a basic machine, but it finds metal under the ground, so it works - and at a bargain price! My advice is avoid machines with tool bundles that push the price up on otherwise cheap machines - get a trowel from the shed and use your phone earphones - that's all you need to get started, and a good little machine like this one.

Top critical review

I have no experience of metal detecting and I didn't spend very long practising, but I read the instructions carefully enough yet couldn't get it to work for me. I was trying to find my wife's wedding ring buried in the mud but ended up buying a gardener's riddle and sieving the soil - laborious, but it worked.

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Bought this for my son for Xmas. Within 10 minutes he'd found 10p in the garden, all excited he went out again and came back a few minutes later with a leather pouch full of silver coins! - It turned out to be a bag of my parking money he must have buried in the garden several years before! But he was hooked from then on! So I bought a detector too and we've been off to the beach together - great fun and I found my first musket shot. Yes, it's a basic machine, but it finds metal under the ground, so it works - and at a bargain price! My advice is avoid machines with tool bundles that push the price up on otherwise cheap machines - get a trowel from the shed and use your phone earphones - that's all you need to get started, and a good little machine like this one.

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My husband bought this and said one of the cables was jammed inbetween the casing and the red button was jammed and didn't pop back up but he managed to unscrew the unit and put the cable correctly in so it would close as it should and he fiddles with the red button setting to make it unstuck.

The unit now works well, we have used it twice. It detects silver, iron, copper/nickel and aluminium very well but is not so good with detecting gold ( have tried with a gold ring and whilst it does get it it appears detecting the other metals is far easier and more audible).

The red button calibrates it: you press the red button in an area where there is no metal and then tune the needle to be 0 to calibrate it after you can hover with it over areas where there are metals. It then makes different pitch sounds depending on your discrimination setting best is to use headphones and also watch how the needle moves, sometimes it will just move the needle and not make a big noise when it finds something, it is very lightweight and can be made quite short with the adjustable stick so even a 6 year old can use it. Not found any gold yet but did dig up some other metals from around 10-20cm deep.

It works indoors too even though there's metal in the concrete flooring. I would definetly recommend this unit for anyone who wants to try out metal detecting on a budget.

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I have no experience of metal detecting and I didn't spend very long practising, but I read the instructions carefully enough yet couldn't get it to work for me. I was trying to find my wife's wedding ring buried in the mud but ended up buying a gardener's riddle and sieving the soil - laborious, but it worked.

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Used this to find any manhole covers under stones before tarmacing driveway. Took a little time to set up properly reading the instructions properly, but once going it worked great, finding two, once of which was a good 6 inches under stones. For the price it’s great for what I used it and although initially concerned it might be poor quality was pleased enough.